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Complete and updated coverage by The New York Times about WikiLeaks and their controversial release of diplomatic cables and war logs

Open Secrets WikiLeaks, War, and American Diplomacy

The New York Times Introduction by Bill Keller

• Essential, unparalleled coverage A New York Times Best Seller from the expert writers at The New York Times on the hundreds he controversial antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, led by Julian of thousands of confidential Assange, made headlines around the world when it released hundreds of documents revealed by WikiLeaks thousands of classified U.S. government documents in 2010. Allowed • Open Secrets also contains a T fascinating selection of original advance access, The New York Times sorted, searched, and analyzed these secret cables and war logs archives, placed them in context, and played a crucial role in breaking the WikiLeaks story. • online promotion at Open Secrets, originally published as an e-book, is the essential collection www.nytimes.com/opensecrets of the Times’s expert reporting and analysis, as well as the definitive chronicle of the documents’ release and the controversy that ensued. An introduction by Times executive editor, Bill Keller, details the paper’s cloak-and-dagger “We may look back at the war logs as relationship with a difficult source. Extended profiles of Assange and Bradley a herald of the end of America’s Manning, the Army private suspected of being his source, offer keen insight engagement in Afghanistan, just as into the main players. Collected news stories offer a broad and deep view into the Pentagon Papers are now a Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the messy challenges facing American power milestone in our slo-mo exit from in Europe, Russia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Also included are edito- Vietnam.”—Frank Rich rials from the Times; opinion columns by Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, and others, and original essays on what the fracas has revealed about American diplomacy and government security. Open Secrets also contains a fascinating selection of original cables and war logs, offering readers an unvarnished look at diplomacy in action.

$16.95 “Thoughtful analysis of one of the largest leaks of classified information 6 x 9, 544 pp. in history—how it happened, what the secret documents say, and what it History 978-0-8021-4576-5 all means. . . . The New York Times brings welcome order to the chaos of World rights: Grove Press the hundreds of thousands U.S. government documents released last year. Rights sold: HarperCollins (Canada) All other rights: The New York Times . . . An important book that gives coherence to a massive data dump.” (tel.: 212-556-1362) —Kirkus Reviews Carton quantity: 28 Export: WxC atlantic monthly press

Hardcovers september

In her first novel since winning the National Book Award for The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck delivers an elegant tour-de-force portrait of a forty-three-year marriage.

I Married You For Happiness A Novel

Lily Tuck

• Tuck won the National Book Award Julie Thayer for The News from Paraguay • Siam was a PEN/Faulkner Award hroughout Lily Tuck’s wide-ranging and award-winning career, she has finalist been praised by critics for her crisp, lean language and her sensuous • Tuck’s short stories have appeared T explorations of exotic locales and complex psychologies. From Siam to in The New Yorker, The Paris Paraguay and beyond, Tuck inspires her readers to travel into unfamiliar Review, The Antioch Review, and the O. Henry Prize Stories realms. Her newest novel is no exception. In I Married You for Happiness, mar- anthology riage, mathematics, and memory coalesce to create her most accessible, riveting, and deeply moving book yet. • prepublication reading copies “His hand is growing cold, still she holds it,” is how this story of a mar- available riage begins. The tale unfolds over a single night, while Nina sits at the bedside • 5-city tour of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for (Boston • New York City • Washington, D.C. her lonely vigil. Too shocked yet to grieve, she lets herself remember the defin- • Chicago • Toronto) ing moments of their long marriage, beginning with their first meeting in • major review coverage Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematician—it was a colli- • IndieBound bookseller outreach sion of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate • reading group guide available love. As the reader is drawn through select memories—real and imagined—of online at www.groveatlantic.com events that occurred in places as distant and disparate as France, Wisconsin, • newsletter cooperative advertising Hong Kong, Mexico, and California, Tuck reveals the most private intimacies, available dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that shaped the lives of Nina and Philip. Slender, powerful, and utterly engaging, I Married You for Happiness is not only a moving elegy to a man and a marriage, but also a meditation on the theory of probability and how chance can affect both a life and one’s consider- $24.00 ation of the possibility of an afterlife. hardcover 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 208 pp. Praise for Lily Tuck: Fiction (FIC019000) 978-0-8021-1991-9 “A storyteller who spellbinds.” —The New York Review of Books World rights: Atlantic Monthly Press Rights sold: HarperCollins (Canada) All other rights: Georges Borchardt Inc. “Restraint is a hallmark of Tuck’s writing. It has violence, pain, and vivid (tel.: 212-753-5785) scenes, but her narrators, even when speaking in the first person, have a Carton quantity: 36 coolness, like someone in a balloon floating over a landscape, looking Export: USO Residence: New York City down with high-powered binoculars.” —The Boston Globe

2 Excerpt from I Married You For Happiness His hand is growing cold, still she holds it. Sitting at his bedside, she does not cry. From time to time, she lays her cheek against his, taking slight comfort in the rough bristle of unshaved hair, and she speaks to him a little. I love you, she tells him. I always will. Je t’aime, she says. Rain is predicted for tonight and, outside, she hears the wind rise. It blows through the branches of the oak trees and she hears a shutter bang against the side of the house, then bang again. She must remember to ask him to fix it—no, she remembers. A car drives by, the radio is on loud. A heavy metal song, she cannot make out the words. Teenagers. How little they know, how little they suspect what life has in store for them—or death. They may be drunk or stoned. She imagines the clouds racing in the night sky half hiding the stars as the car careens down the dirt road, scattering stones behind it like gunshot. A yell. A rolled down window and a hurled beer can for her to pick up in the morning.

Lily Tuck is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water, Siam, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award.

Praise for The News From Paraguay:

“A tense, elegant novel . . . Paraguay materializes as Tuck’s characters do, imperceptibly, until the sounds, smells, and colors of the country saturate the pages.”—the Boston Globe “Tuck is no ordinary novelist . . . and The News from Paraguay is an unforgettable masterpiece.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Vivid, intriguing . . . Tuck brings to life the lush, sensual, and brutal world of nineteenth-century Paraguay.”—Entertainment Weekly “A portrait of a lost place and time . . . The book’s exotic atmosphere becomes the main character, and it’s a highly engaging one. At times, it is as charming and beguiling as a magician.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Compelling . . . The stuff that good fiction is made of: complex characters and an intricate narrative.”—Newsday

3 september

From the author of the New York Times best seller Matterhorn, which has sold over 250,000 copies, What It Is Like to Go to War is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for the psychological and spiritual stresses of war.

What It is like to go to war

Karl Marlantes

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• 14-city tour devon marlan t es (Boston • New York City • Philadelphia • Washington, D.C. • Raleigh/Durham/Chapel n 1969, at the age of twenty-two, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the Hill • Chicago • Milwaukee • Madison • Minneapolis/St. Paul • Kansas City • Denver highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced second lieutenant in com- • San Francisco • Portland • Seattle) I mand of a platoon of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. • NPR and talk-radio-phoner Marlantes was a bright young man who was well trained for the task at hand campaign but, as he was to discover, far from mentally prepared for what he was about to • op-eds at publication experience. In his thirteen-month tour he saw intense combat. He killed the • major review coverage enemy and he watched friends die. Marlantes survived, but like many of his • target military press and media brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his experiences. • newsletter cooperative advertising In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and can- available did look at the experience and ordeal of combat, critically examining how we • also available as a Blackstone might better prepare our young soldiers for war. War is as old as humankind, audiobook but in the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion, and litera- ture—which also helped bring them home. In a compelling narrative, Also available: Marlantes weaves riveting accounts of his combat experiences with thoughtful Matterhorn: A Novel of analysis, self-examination, and his readings—from Homer to the Mahab- the Vietnam War harata to Jung. He tells frankly about how he is haunted by the face of a young (978-0-8021-4531-4 • $15.99 North Vietnamese soldier he killed at close quarters and how he finally finds a • USCO) way to make peace with his past. Marlantes discusses the daily contradictions that warriors face in the grind of war, where each battle requires them to take life or spare life, and where they enter a state he likens to the fervor of reli- $25.95 (Canada: $34.50) gious ecstasy. He makes it clear just how poorly prepared our nineteen-year-old hardcover warriors—mainly men but increasingly women—are for the psychological 6 x 9, 448 pp. Nonfiction, History (Military) HIS027060 and spiritual aspects of the journey. 978-0-8021-1992-6 Just as Matterhorn is already being acclaimed as a classic of war literature, U.S. and Canadian rights: Atlantic Monthly Press What It Is Like to Go to War is set to become required reading for anyone— All other rights: International Creative soldier or civilian—interested in this visceral and all too essential part of the Management human experience. (tel.: 212-556-5600) Carton quantity: 24 Export: USCO Residence: Woodinville, WA

4 Excerpt from what it is like to go to war There was one particular NVA soldier whose desperate fearful eyes I still vividly recall, standing out like black pools in an exploding landscape of mud and dying vegeta- tion. With my mind’s eye I can still see him rising from his hole to throw a hand grenade at me. The wild desperation, the animal cornered, looking for a way out, and there was no way out. The panic. I looked directly up hill and saw the dark shape of the grenade tumbling in an arc against the silver-gray cloud cover, making a trajectory right toward us. My radioman and I both survived the explosion, although I was hit with small bits of shrapnel in the back of the legs. They felt like bee stings, hot and many. I was so pumped up with adrenaline they didn’t even slow me down. When I looked up after the explosion, the Vietnamese kid was dead. I now have all sorts of feelings. Suppose it was my son Peter, trapped, filled with fear as these huge American Marines, known to be ruthless, crazy even, came relentlessly from out of the jungle, swarming up the hill, killing his friends in their holes around him? Then two are just below him. Desperately, he tries to lob a grenade over into the unseen dip in the hill where the two Marines disappeared. A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford “Throw the grenade! Try and save yourself, Peter!” But two rifles spit white-orange light. Peter is dead . . . my son. University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Viet- nam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, My feeling, now? Ohh, the sadness. The sadness. And, ohh, two Navy Commendation medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, the grief of evil in the world to which I contribute. and ten Air Medals. He is the author of the best-selling and prize-winning Matterhorn. Praise for matterhorn:

“A magnificent work . . . This is certainly one of the most powerful and moving novels ever written about Vietnam, and its description of combat rivals anything I have read on the topic—by Erich Maria Remarque, Norman Mailer, James Jones, James Webb, John Keegan, Paul Fussell, anyone.” —James Fallows, The Atlantic “There has never been a more realistic portrait of or eloquent tribute to the nobility of men under fire. . . . Vladimir Nabokov once said that the greatest books are those you read not just with your heart or your mind, but with your spine. This is one for the spine.” —Mark Bowden, The Philadelphia Inquirer “Few war novels give you life and death in the field this vividly, with all of its furor and spraying blood and feces, its hunger and near madness. The troops of Bravo Company suffer the jungle of war, the enemy machine guns, grenades, and mortars, and somehow the novelist transfigures them into heroes. . . . Leeches suck their blood, tigers kill and eat them, the fog descends upon them, sometimes blinds them. Their wounds ooze, their feet begin to rot, their rations go. They’re reduced to licking their ponchos for moisture. . . . Matterhorn will take your heart and sometimes even your breath away.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered

5 september

From one of the world’s top thriller writers, this is a masterful story involving diamond smuggling, gang warfare, and international espionage amid the beautiful landscape and troubled history of South Africa

Trackers

Deon Meyer

• Trackers was a #1 best seller in South Africa • Thirteen Hours is a finalist for the Barry Award for Best Thriller, and was short-listed for the CWA International Dagger • Meyer’s previous novels have “With Deon Meyer, you can’t go wrong. He’s a writer whose work I admire, won the Deutsche Krimi Preis, wait for, and then devour.” —Michael Connelly the French Le Prix Mystère de la ith books published in twenty languages, Deon Meyer has won heaps Critique, the French Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the of critical acclaim and a reputation as one of the best thriller writers in ATKV Prize for Suspense Fiction W the world. Over six previous novels, the king of South African crime has spun pulse-pounding tales of violence and history in his beloved country. In • 4-city tour Trackers, Lemmer, a freelance bodyguard, goes against his rule to not get involved (New York City • St. Louis • when a wealthy farmer asks for his help smuggling a pair of rare black rhinos out Houston • Phoenix) of Zimbabwe, where the animals are murdered for their horns. Before he knows • online features and reviews it, Lemmer is in a small airplane, zipping across the border with an airsickness • mystery and thriller marketing bag in his hand and a military-grade shotgun at his feet. But trouble finds Lem- campaign mer on a deserted road in Zimbabwe that night. Big trouble. • online promotion at Back in Cape Town, Milla Strachan, the emotionally abused wife of a philan- www.deonmeyer.com dering husband and the mother of a cruel teenage son, works up the courage to pack up and start a new life. But at forty, it’s tough to find work as a journalist and Milla Also available: takes what she can get—in this case, a classified job writing intelligence reports. It’s Blood Safari (978-0-8021-4506-2 • exciting work, more exciting than she could have imagined, and more dangerous $7.99 • US) than she could have ever expected. Connecting Milla and Lemmer is Mat Joubert, a former detective working on his first case as a private eye. Moving between a phenomenal cast of characters including farmers, outlaws, gangsters, and intelligence agents, Meyer delves deep into the people, the prob-

$24.00 lems, and the landscapes of South Africa. He is an insightful writer that expands hardcover the reader’s horizons as he threatens to take ones breath away. 6 x 9, 400 pp. Thriller (FIC031000) Deon Meyer is the author of seven crime novels, including Heart of the 978-0-8021-1993-3 Hunter, Dead at Daybreak, Thirteen Hours, and Blood Safari. He lives on the west- U.S rights: Atlantic Monthly Press All other rights: InkWell Management ern coast of South Africa. (tel.: 212-922-3500) Carton quantity: 24 Export: USOxE Residence: South Africa

6 Excerpt from “ Thirteen Hours has breathtaking suspense, psychological Trackers understanding, and one of the most inspiring detectives ever. Deon Meyer deserves his international reputation.” “There’s a vehicle following us, for the past hour,” I said. —Thomas Perry “I want to make sure about this, Lourens. We’ll wait for a long downhill. Don’t use your brakes; we don’t want to alert them. But slow down, use the gears to stop. Slowly, Thirteen Hours smoothly. Keep the lights on.” Lourens took his foot off the accelerator, worked down Deon Meyer through the gears, put it in neutral. The Mercedes slowed. Lourens waited a bit and then turned off the lights. The night was suddenly pitch black. The only lights were the ones behind us, considerably closer now. “When we stop, turn off the engine and use the hand brake. But stay in your seat and keep your hand on the keys.” I took the Glock out of the storage space, waited until we rolled to a halt, opened the door, leapt out, ran round to the rear of the truck, pistol in hand. Lourens turned the engine off. The lights behind us, now only two hundred metres away, “A gem of a protagonist . . . [a] wonderfully realized book . . . snapped off suddenly. Deon Meyer continues to be one of the most underappreciated writers in the genre, especially in the United States, but if he A very bad sign. keeps turning out books like Thirteen Hours, I can’t see that Flea came and stood beside me. “If the tranquillizer wears situation continuing for long. This is my favorite novel of the off, the rhinos will go into a frenzy. I can’t inject them in year so far.” —George Easter, Deadly Pleasures the dark. Can we get moving?” n Thirteen Hours, morning dawns in Cape Town, and for homicide detective Benny Griessel it promises to be a very I trying day. A teenage girl’s body has been found on the street, her throat cut. She was an American—a PR nightmare in the #1 tourist destination in South Africa. And she wasn’t alone. Some- where in Cape Town her friend, Rachel Anderson, an innocent American, is hopefully still alive. Praise for TrackerS: On the run from the first page of Thirteen Hours, Rachel is terrified, unsure where to turn in the unknown city. Detective “Meyer’s punch lies in the authenticity and depth Griessel races against the clock, trying to bring her home safe and of his characters. And he has his finger on the solve the murder of her friend in a single day. Meanwhile, he gets pulse of modern South Africa. This is what makes pulled into a second case, the murder of a South African music Trackers a winner.”—Volksblad (South Africa) executive. Griessel’s been sober for nearly six months—156 days. “A cleverly constructed story—and a great But day 157 is going to be tough. A #1 best seller in South Africa adventure.”—Beeld (South Africa) and, published to rave reviews, Thirteen Hours is an atmospheric, intensely gripping novel from a master storyteller. “This is a book you can only put down with great difficulty.”—Die Burger (South Africa) • also available as a HighBridge audiobook “Trackers is technically probably the most challenging an author can attempt. But Meyer does it with consummate ease. With this book, $7.99 All other rights: I truly believe, he has now risen head and mass market paperback InkWell Management (strippable) (tel.: 212-922-3500) shoulders above what has been done 4 3/16 x 6 7/8, 560 pp. Carton quantity: 36 in the crime genre internationally.” Thriller (FIC031000) USOxE 978-0-8021-4545-1 Residence: South Africa —Rapport (South Africa) U.S. rights: Grove Press Previous ISBN: 978-0-8021-1958-2

7 october

The fascinating story of the Conficker computer worm— which, since its introduction in November 2008, has infected millions of computers around the world—and the cyber security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find its creators and defeat them

Worm The Story of the First Digital World War

Mark Bowden

• prepublication reading copies ark Bowden’s Worm: The Story of the First Digital World War is available about the next frontier in terrorism. Bowden, the best-selling • 8-city tour M author of Black Hawk Down, has delivered a dramatic cybercrime (Boston • New York City • Philadelphia • Washington, D.C. • Los Angeles • story that explores the Conficker computer worm, a potentially devastating San Francisco • Portland • Seattle) computer virus that has baffled experts and infected as many as twelve million • national TV and radio coverage computers to date. • online features and reviews When the Conficker computer worm was unleashed on the world in • op-eds at publication November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. The worm, exploiting the security flaws in Microsoft Windows, grew at an aston- • major review coverage ishingly rapid rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within • newsletter cooperative advertising weeks. Once the worm infiltrated one system it was able to link that system available with others to form a single network under illicit outside control—a situation • also available as an audiobook known as a “botnet.” This botnet was soon capable of overpowering any of the from Grove/Atlantic on Brilliance Audio vital computer networks that today control banking, telephone service, energy flow, air traffic, health-care information—even the Internet itself. Was it a platform for criminal profit, or a weapon? Security experts do not know for sure what Conficker’s purpose is, or even where it came from. Bowden’s book reports this new frontier on terror in a way that has never been done. He skillfully explores the dazzling battle of wits between expert pro- grammers over the future of the Internet—a battle that has pitted those determined to exploit the Internet against those committed to protect it, $24.00 (Canada: $28.95) and awakened the U.S. government for the first time to the urgent nature of hardcover 6 x 9, 288 pp. the threat. In Worm: The Story of the First Digital World War, Mark Bowden Nonfiction, Political Science delivers an accessible and fascinating look at the ongoing and largely unreported (POL036000) 978-0-8021-1983-4 war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. World rights: Atlantic Monthly Press All other rights: Dunham Literary Inc. (tel.: 212-929-0994) Carton quantity: 28 Export USCO Residence: Philadelphia

8 Excerpt from worm If yours is one of the infected machines, you are seemingly in full command of your computer, unaware that you have a hidden rival, or that you are part of this vast robot fleet. The worm inside your machine is not idle. It is stealthily running, issuing small maintenance commands, working to protect itself from being discovered and removed, biding its time and periodically checking in with its command-and- control center. Conficker has taken over a large part of our digital world, and so far most people haven’t even noticed. The struggle against this remarkable worm is a sort of chess match unfolding in the esoteric world of computer security. It pits the cleverest attackers in the world, the bad guys, against the cleverest defenders in the world, the good guys (who have been dubbed the “Conficker Cabal”). It has prompted the first truly concerted global effort to kill a computer virus, extraordinary feats of international cooperation, and the deployment of state-of-the-art decryption techniques—moves and countermoves at the highest level of programming. The good guys have gone to unprecedented lengths, and have had successes beyond anything they would have thought possible when they started. But a year and a half into the battle, here’s the bottom line: the worm is winning.

Mark Bowden is the author of seven books, including Praise for Mark Bowden: Black Hawk Down. He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, “With the same precision he used to dissect a and other magazines. firefight in Mogadishu, Bowden anatomizes the 1958 NFL Championship between the Baltimore Also available: Colts and the New York Giants, which featured Black Hawk Down a death-defying comeback by the Colts and was (978-0-8021-4473-7 • $15.00 • also one of America’s first ‘truly communal live USCO) national events.’”—Time on The Best Game Ever The Best Game Ever (978-0-8021-4412-6 • $14.00 • “Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral USCO) reading experiences imaginable.”—Michael Maren, Bringing the Heat The Philadelphia Inquirer on Black Hawk Down (978-0-87113-772-2 • $17.00 • USCO) “Heart-stopping, and heartbreaking.” Doctor Dealer —James Traub, the New York Times Book Review (978-0-8021-3757-9 • $15.00 • on Guests of the Ayatollah USCO) Finders Keepers “The story of how U.S. Army Intelligence and (978-0-8021-4021-0 • $13.00 • Delta Force commandos helped Colombian USCO) police track down and kill Pablo Escobar . . . A Guests of the Ayatollah compelling, almost Shakespearean tale.” (978-0-8021-4303-7 • $15.00 • W) —Los Angeles Times on Killing Pablo

9 november

The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P. J. O’Rourke’s Holidays in Heck is the slightly less hazardous, slightly more mature, but still very funny collection of his classic travel pieces on China, Venice, and beyond.

Holidays in Heck

A Former War Correspondent Experiences Frightening Vacation Fun

P. J. O’Rourke

• prepublication reading copies available • tie in with author lecture schedule A drian D angar • national TV and radio coverage • op-eds at publication .J. O’Rourke is one of today’s most celebrated political humorists, and • major review coverage he has been hailed as “the funniest writer in America” by both Time • online promotion at P and The Wall Street Journal. Two decades ago he published the classic www.pjorourke.com travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he traversed the globe on a fun-finding • newsletter cooperative advertising mission to what were then some of the most desperate places on the planet, available including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. • also available as an audiobook Holidays in Heck begins after the Iraq War, when P.J. retired from being a from Grove/Atlantic on war correspondent because he was “too old to keep being scared stiff and too Brilliance Audio stiff to keep sleeping on the ground.” Instead, he embarked on supposedly more comfortable and allegedly less dangerous travels—often with family in Also available: tow—which mostly left him wishing he were under artillery fire again. Holidays in Hell The essays take O’Rourke on a whirlwind of adventures, beginning at the (978-0-8021-3701-2 • $12.00 • USCO) National Mall in Washington, which he describes as having been designed with the same amazing “greatest generation” aesthetic sensibility that informed his parents’ living room. We follow him as he takes his family on a ski vacation (to the Aspen of the Midwest—Ohio—where the highest point of elevation in the state is the six-foot ski instructor that his wife thinks is cute). And later he experiences a harrowing horseback ride across the mountains of Kyrgyzstan— no towns, no roads, no people, and, whoops, no P.J. in the saddle. The result is a hilarious and often moving portrait of life in the fast lane— only this time as a husband and father. $23.00 (Canada: $27.95) hardcover 6 x 9, 288 pp. Nonfiction, Humor (HUM003000) 978-0-8021-1985-8 World rights: Atlantic Monthly Press Performance rights: author, c/o of Grove/Atlantic Carton quantity: 32 Export: USCO Residence: New Hampshire

10 Excerpts from holidays in heck I surveyed our family ski vacation needs: For Muffin, not too much scenery. For the rest, not too much skiing. I peeked into the bank account. Not too much money. I had an inspiration. There’s a place that gets snow almost every day of winter, and it has the added advantage that I’m from there. “Ohio! Hooray!” said Muffin. “Aunt Loulou let my cousin Tiffany get pierced ears in first grade!” “We are not staying with your relatives,” said Mrs. O. * I was somewhere in Kyrgyzstan. Even by the standards of outer space Kyrgyzstan is remote. If something happened to my horse it would be shot. For me, the medical treatment wouldn’t be that sophisticated. Furthermore, there were blonde hairs all over my clothes and luggage. How would I explain this to my red-headed wife? I had a love affair in Kyrgyzstan. Not only that, but with a male. His legs are so beautiful. And he has four of them. * Everything that makes for a terrible pre-teen—the attitude, the talking back, the eye-rolling, the exasperated sighs— makes for an excellent Hong Kong shopper. Muffin would flounce into a shop, examine a few items without evident P. J. O’Rourke is the author of thirteen books, including interest and loudly announce, “Ho gwai!” (“Too expen- Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, both of which sive!”) More than one shopkeeper came out from behind were #1 New York Times best sellers. His most recent book is the cash register to embrace her. “You real Hong Kong girl!” Don’t Vote—It Just Encourages the Bastards.

Praise for P. J. O’Rourke:

“[A] treat of a book . . . As with almost all of O’Rourke’s work, it’s easy reading, and he’s just as good, if not better, at cracking wise about cars and driving as he is about liberal politics.”—the dallas Morning News on Driving Like Crazy “Some seven hundred pages shorter than the 1776 treatise, O’Rourke’s On The Wealth of Nations provides a jovial and readable synopsis of its weighty forefather, starting with Smith’s argument that the pursuit of self-interest ultimately benefits society. . . . For a deadline-conscious college student facing Adam Smith’s turgid prose, the O’Rourke alternative will be an easy choice.” —Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, the boston Globe on on the Wealth of Nations “A spin with P. J. O’Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. You get where you’re going fast, with exhilarating views—but not without a few bruises.” —The New York Times Book Review on Holidays in Hell “Peace Kills is war coverage in the great tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H: Wars can be right or wrong, but they are always crazy and frightening in the center and might be uproarious around the edge. . . . P. J. O’Rourke [is] one of America’s funniest serious commentators. . . . His eye is sharp and his smirk is fixed firmly in place.”—John Gibson, New York Post on Peace Kills

11 november

From celebrated military historian Lloyd Clark comes the riveting and richly detailed account of the greatest land battle of all time, and a crucial turning point in World War II —the massive tank battle at Kursk in July 1943

the battle of the tanks Kursk, 1943

Lloyd Clark

• Both of Lloyd Clark’s previous n July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi books, Anzio and Crossing the and Red Army forces clashed around the town of Kursk, on the west- Rhine, were Main Selections of ern border of the Soviet Union, a region that had acquired vital the Military Book Club O strategic importance for Hitler’s war in the east. Code-named “Operation • The Battle of the Tanks utilizes extensive new interviews with Citadel,” the German offensive would unite Nazi forces from the north and veterans of the battle as well as south, cutting through the bulge in the Eastern front that had been created new information from documents following Germany’s retreat at the Battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well- that were released from the informed about Germany’s plans through their network of spies, had months Russian archives in the early 1990s to prepare and built one of the most formidable defenses of all time. Two mil- lion men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened • major review coverage in Kursk in the weeks leading up to the battle. • target military press and media The explosive onslaught of the first day devolved into a quagmire of local- ized fighting. Several days later the engagement reached its pinnacle at the Also available: small southern village of Prokhorovka, where a fleet of state-of-the-art Anzio German Panzer tanks collided with the Soviet Fifth Guards Tank Army (978-0-8021-4326-6 • $16.00 • US) Reserve in the biggest tank battle in history. By the end of the clash nearly half Crossing the Rhine of the 850 tanks involved had been destroyed and tens of thousands of men (978-0-8021-4430-0 • $15.00 • US) had died. The death count for the eighteen-day battle was staggering: over 360,000 men lost their lives, an average of 20,000 a day. Despite suffering seven times more casualties, the Soviets had stopped the German blitzkrieg $25.00 hardcover and won a decisive victory that became a turning point not only on the East- 6 x 9, 496 pp. ern front but in the Second World War as a whole. Maps and photo insert Nonfiction, History (World War II) The Battle of the Tanks is storytelling and military history at its finest, drop- (HIS027100) ping us into the cockpits and tanks as the battle unfolds, and into the war 978-0-8021-1908-7 U.S rights: Atlantic Monthly Press rooms where Hitler, Stalin, and their generals maneuver for strategic domi- All other rights: nance. With unprecedented access to the journals and testimonials of the Mulcahy Conway Associates Ltd. officers, soldiers, political leaders, and citizens who lived through it, The (London, tel.: 207-938-3851) Carton quantity: 32 Battle of the Tanks is the definitive account of an epic showdown that changed Export: US the course of history. Residence: England

12 Excerpt from the battle of the tanks When a tank was hit, the crew tried to evacuate immedi- ately. What was feared most was being trapped inside a tank when it burst into flames—a small fire could spread very quickly. Captain Itlin Skripkin of XVIII Tank Corps had trained the four-man crews in his T-34 tank battalion not only how to evacuate in just eight seconds but, in the likely event of casualties, how to get them out as well. It was a drill that would save his life. Skripkin entered the battle at the head of his battalion and, over the course of the next three hours, managed to destroy four enemy tanks includ- ing a Tiger. He had his fifth tank in the sights—a Mark IV Tiger—and pulled the trigger. At that very moment his tank was hit and a searing blast ripped through its body, which immediately caught fire. Chernov, the loader, was dead, his head blown clean from his body, while Skripkin lay slumped over the gun sights, blood pouring from a deep gash on his forehead. The driver, Master Sergeant Nikolayev, and the wireless operator, Zyryanov, pulled their gravely wounded commander out of the tank through the flames engulfing the turret. Lowering Skripkin to the ground, Zyryanov dragged the captain to the cover of a shell crater but Nikolayev, having noticed an oncoming Tiger, jumped back into the burning tank. The turret slowly turned, stopped, and fired a shell at the Tiger. Seconds later the LloYd clark Tiger erupted, its turret blown off in a massive explosion. is a senior academic in the Department of Skripkin survived the experience and went on to become War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and a marshal of the Soviet Union and President Kruschev’s a Professorial Research Fellow in War Studies, at the University right-hand man. of Buckingham.

Praise for lloyd clark:

“Masterly.”—The Washington Post on Anzio “Lloyd Clark’s lucid, elegantly written book is well overdue . . . Absolutely first-class.” —Alex Kershaw, author of The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter, on Anzio “This is a beautifully written history, a masterly intertwining of perspectives from the war cabinet to the trenches, which will deservedly take its place on bookshelves alongside the works of Antony Beevor and Max Hastings.”—Gary Sheffield, Birmingham Post

“Military history writing of the highest order.”—History Today on Crossing the Rhine “Outstanding . . . Brings an immediacy to one of the war’s legendary episodes.” —the Oxford Times on Crossing the Rhine “Among the thousands of books devoted to Second World War history only a small minority can claim to appeal to a wide audience. But through Lloyd Clark’s narrative skill, Crossing the Rhine is surely one of them.”—The Daily Telegraph

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Equal parts detective thriller and courtroom drama, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace is the true story of the brutal murder of four Iranian opposition leaders, the subsequent investigation, and the trial that is Europe’s most groundbreaking legal case since Nuremberg assassins of the turquoise palace

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• Hakakian’s Journey from the “A brilliant, riveting book . . . Roya Hakakian has told a great story but, Land of No was named the Best more important, she has made plain the lethal immorality at the heart of Nonfiction Book of 2004 by Elle Iran’s regime.” —Joe Klein magazine’s Readers Choice Award and was a Publishers Weekly Best n the evening of September 17, 1992, eight leading members of the Book of 2004 Iranian and Kurdish opposition had gathered at a little-known restau- O rant in Berlin when two darkly clad men burst through the entrance. • prepublication reading copies Within moments the roar of a machine gun filled the air. Two rounds of fire available and four single shots later, four of the men were dead. • 6-city tour Who had pulled the trigger? The morning papers implicated the Iraqi pres- (Boston • New York City • Washington, D.C. • Chicago • Los Angeles • San Francisco) ident, Saddam Hussein. The chief federal prosecutor suspected a rival opposition group. But neither the press nor the country’s top lawman knew • 10-city radio satellite tour then that these men were not the only ones who had been killed. Since the rise • major review coverage to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, over one hundred Iranian exiles had • social network marketing campaign disappeared or been assassinated in Europe and elsewhere. on Facebook and Twitter But one of the survivors of that shooting, along with the widow of one of • online promotion at the victims and a handful of reporters, attorneys, and fellow exiles, began a www.royahakakian.com crusade that would not only pit themselves against Tehran but against some of the greatest powers in Germany. An undeterred federal prosecutor and an endlessly patient chief judge took over the case and a historic verdict fol- lowed that shook both Europe and Iran, and achieved something few could $25.00 (Canada: $30.50) have predicted—justice. hardcover 6 x 9, 320 pp. Assassins of the Turquoise Palace is the first book to tell this story in all its Nonfiction, History (Iran) (HIS026000) detail, from the ghastly shooting inside Mykonos restaurant to the investigation 978-0-8021-1911-7 that took place over the course of several years, and finally to the landmark World rights: Grove Press Foreign rights sold: DVA (Germany) trial—a case that marked the first and only time that a non-democratic regime All other rights: had been put on trial for its blatant violation of international law, and which to Writers’ Representatives, LLC (tel.: 212-620-9009) this day remains the only instance of Western success against Iran’s ruling cler- Carton quantity: 28 ics. Roya Hakakian’s Assassins of the Turquoise Palace is an incredible book of Export: USCO Residence: Connecticut history and reportage, and an unforgettable narrative of heroism and justice.

16 Excerpt from assassins of the turquoise palace After nearly an hour prowling Prager Street, two hulking, bearded figures rolled their collars up to their eyes and burst inside. It was 10:47 p.m. They darted through the main dining hall, past a lonely customer nursing a last drink. Through an archway, they entered the back room, where a party of eight sat around a rectangular table. The taller of the two intruders stationed himself behind one of the diners, facing the eldest among Assassins them—a bald, bespectacled man in a gray suit who was addressing everyone. No one was yet aware of their arrival. of the The speaker, suddenly meeting the intruder’s dark gaze upon himself, turned pale and froze in mid-speech. Another guest asked what was wrong with him. The answer came Turquoise from the intruder: “You sons of whores!” Palace He thrust his gloved hand into the sports bag that hung on his shoulder. Then, a click! A voice from the table shouted: “Comrades, it’s an Roya Hakakian Author of Journey from the Land of No assassi . . . !” The trail of his call faded in the roaring sound that followed. In the dimly lit air, sparks of fire flashed at the intruder’s Roya Hakakian is a former associate producer at hip. Bullets, piercing the side of the bag, bombarded the CBS’s 60 Minutes and the author of two books of poetry in guests. The shell casings rang on the floor—the men Persian. She’s a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship collapsing, their chairs falling, the wall behind them for nonfiction and the author of the acclaimed memoir cracking with each bullet. Journey from the Land of No. Her opinion pieces and essays have appeared in numerous media outlets, including National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

Praise for assassins of the Turquoise Palace:

“Even as they continue to breach every known international law, all the while protesting at interventions in their ‘internal affairs,’ the theocrats in Tehran stand convicted of mounting murderous interventions in the affairs of others. Roya Hakakian’s beautiful book mercilessly exposes just one of these crimes, and stands as tribute to the courageous dissidents and lawyers who managed one of that rarest of human achievements: an authentic victory for truth and justice.”—Christopher Hitchens “This is a brilliant, riveting book with all the elements of a great thriller— a horrific crime, sociopathic villains, international intrigue, personal betrayals, a noble prosecutor, and an honorable judge. And it is all too real, with remarkably comprehensive reporting and brisk, smart writing.”—joe Klein “As the world contemplates the pressing predicament of Iran, Roya Hakakian offers one possible solution through a riveting tale that is most timely and profoundly urgent. This superb true story is much more than an international In Cold Blood—it is a stunning parable of the central struggle of our times between totalitarianism and the rule of law.”—R. James Woolsey, CIA Director 1992–1994

17 october

A bleak-comic detective novel in the vein of No Country for Old Men, Jim Harrison’s The Great Leader follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister cult leader. the great leader

Jim Harrison S padden tt M c Wya

• Harrison’s last book, The Farmer’s est-selling and beloved author Jim Harrison has won international Daughter, was selected as a Denver acclaim for his masterful body of work, including Returning to Earth, Post Editors’ Choice and a New Legends of the Fall, and over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and York Times Book Review Editors’ B Choice poetry. In his newest and most original work to date, Harrison delivers an • The English Major was named enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel that follows one man’s hunt for a New York Times Book Review an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader. Editors’ Choice and Notable Book Detective Sunderson is on the verge of retirement when he begins to inves- of 2008, a National Indie best tigate a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home in Michigan’s seller, a San Francisco Chronicle Upper Peninsula. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harm- Best Book of 2008, and a 2009 Michigan Notable Book less oddball, but as Sunderson and his unlikely sixteen-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. Recently • also available as a Blackstone divorced and frequently pickled in alcohol, Sunderson tracks his quarry from audiobook the woods of Michigan to a town in Arizona that is filled with professional and criminal border-crossers, then on to Nebraska where the Great Leader’s most recent recruits have gathered to glorify his questionable religion. But Sunderson’s demons are also in pursuit of him. Rich with character and incredibly funny, Jim Harrison’s The Great Leader is at once a gripping excursion through America’s landscapes and the poignant story of a man grappling with age, lost love, and his own darker nature. $24.00 hardcover 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 288 pp. Fiction (FIC019000) 978-0-8021-1970-4 World rights: Grove Press Foreign rights sold: House of Anansi (Canada), Flammarion (France) All other rights: Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams Also available: Julip & Sheppard LLP The Farmer’s Daughter (978-0-8021-4376-1 • $14.00 • W) (tel.: 212-974-7474) Returning to Earth Carton quantity: 28 (978-0-8021-4502-4 • $14.00 • WxC) Export: USCO The English Major (978-0-8021-4331-0 • $14.00 • USO) Residence: Michigan, Montana, and Arizona (978-0-8021-4414-0 • $14.00 • USO) True North (978-0-8021-4206-1 • $14.00 • USO)

18 Excerpt from the great leader

He tried to run back toward the car while covering his face but two larger rocks in succession hit his fingers, breaking one, and then the back of his head which felled him like the trees he used to cut. While falling he twisted to try to see his assailants but the blood smeared his vision. He tried to grab at the bush that had been full of birds but the branches were too brittle and he hit the ground hard face down which fractured his nose and knocked out his wind. He scrambled toward his blurred car on his hands and knees with the copper smell of blood gushing from his nose. He heard a voice that he was sure was the Great Leader shouting, “Go away. Stay away.” On his knees beside the compact car he turned and with limited vision could see him standing there between the canyon walls with a dozen or so young girls wearing skirts. They all turned and walked back toward the ranch. He made it the seven miles out to the main road and barely had pulled over when he passed out. When he awoke it was high noon with sleet beating against the windows and now the peaks of the Chiricahuas were invisible. The lights in his brain began to dim again as he sat there with the sleet ticking off the windshield. He kept thinking, “I have no evidence,” but didn’t quite know what his brain meant by this sentence.

jim harrison is the author of over thirty-four books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He divides his time between Michigan, Arizona, and Montana.

Praise for jim harrison:

“[Harrison’s] books glisten with love of the world and are as grounded as Thoreau’s in the particulars of American place—its rivers and thickets, its highways and taverns. Bawdily and with unrelenting gusto, Harrison’s forty years of writing explores what constitutes a good life, both aesthetically and morally, on this planet.”—Will Blythe, The New York Times Book Review “Dear President Obama: . . . I am suggesting that you add a cabinet member to help steer us toward some kind of glorious acclamation. I would like to nominate Jim Harrison. . . . This Michigan writer . . . knows life in a way that few will admit to, and writes about it in a ribald, vigorous, and intelligent fashion. . . . Jim Harrison . . . is, I hope you’ll agree, sir, a national treasure.”— Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune “Always as exhilarating as a breath of fresh air . . . Harrison’s fiction . . . is rooted in a deep connection with nature and infused with passion for the vast wilds of America and respect for its disenfranchised.”—Heller McAlpin, NPR

19 november

A raw, honest, and personal new collection of stories from acclaimed storyteller Dagoberto Gilb, “an important voice in American fiction” (Annie Proulx)

Before the end, after the beginning Stories

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• prepublication reading copies efore the End, After the Beginning is an exquisite collection of ten available stories by Dagoberto Gilb. The pieces come in the wake of a stroke Gilb • pitch backstory for off-the-book- B suffered at his home in Austin, Texas, in 2009, and a majority of the page features stories were written over his many months of recovery. The result is a powerful • major review coverage and triumphant book that tackles common themes of existence and identity and • IndieBound bookseller outreach describes the American experience in a raw, authentic vernacular unique to Gilb. These ten stories take readers through the American Southwest, from Los Also available: Angeles and Albuquerque to El Paso and Austin. Gilb covers territory touched on The Flowers in some of his earlier work—a mother and son’s relationship in Southern Califor- (978-0-8021-4402-7 • $14.00 • USCO) nia in the story “Uncle Rock,” and a character looking to shed his mixed-up past Gritos in “The Last Time I Saw Junior”—while dealing with the themes of mortality and (978-0-8021-4127-9 • $13.00 • USCO) limitation that have arose during his own illness. The collection’s most personal The Last Known Residence of Mickey story, “please, thank you,” focuses on a man who has been hospitalized with a Acuña stroke, and paints in detail the protagonist’s relationship with his children and the (978-0-8021-3419-6 • $11.00 • W) nurses who care for him. The final story, Hacia“ Teotitlán,” looks at a man, now old, The Magic of Blood (978-0-8021-3399-1 • $15.00 • W) returning to Mexico and considering his life and imminent death. Woodcuts of Women Short stories are the perfect medium for Gilb, an accomplished storyteller (978-0-8021-3874-3 • $12.00 • W) whose debut collection, The Magic of Blood, won the prestigious PEN/ Hemingway Foundation Award for fiction in 1994. Before the End, After the Beginning proves that Gilb has lost none of his gifts, and that this may be his most extraordinary achievement to date. $24.00 hardcover 5 x 7 1/4, 160 pp. Fiction (FIC029000) 978-0-8021-2000-7 U.S. and Canadian rights: Grove Press All other rights: InkWell Management (tel.: 212-922-3500) Carton quantity: 36 Export: USCO Residence: Austin, TX

20 Excerpt from before the end, after the beginning At first, their people came and went. my children or the few close friends who worried about me dying, they came and stayed some too. im talking about staff people. nurses? not all of them. or they all werent schooled as nurses, years of classes, even if they acted like they are or even do what nurses do. they do something every hour. if i tried to say something, they started asking the same questions. what is your name? what is the date? where were you born? like that. or sometimes, como te llamas? que es la fecha de hoy? like im from mexico and just crossed, not american like them. im from here! ill bet my familys been here longer than yours! i was semper fi,cabron , and then I was an iron- worker for ten years, were you? always, always has made me so mad, even if i dont say it out loud to these people here. i was cooperative the first few times, but then i just wanted to be given answers to what i was asking. like, am I going to get better? or worse? i didnt like them ignoring me, or acting as if what i said was not important. even if it wasnt. i knew what they were thinking. i was someone who didnt matter, who didnt count much. in the large, i know its true. i am a name, just another, one they think is foreign even, when there are so many hurting. but then, so what? i accept it always, in my life, but now too? it makes me mad.

DAGOBERTO gilb is the author of The Flowers, Gritos, Woodcuts of Women, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, and The Magic of Blood. His essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Best American Essays.

Praise for Dagoberto Gilb:

“After I read The Flowers it would be a lie if I were to say Gilb is a good writer. He’s not. He’s way, way better than good. The Flowers is the best book yet by one of our finest authors.” —Eric Miles Williamson, San Francisco Chronicle on The Flowers “[Gritos] is a collection about prejudice and pride, told with the flair of a storyteller known for his fiction. . . . [Gilb’s] prose is easy-flowing and thoughtful. He can be unbelievably funny. . . . What he has to say and how he says it is so interesting, you can’t help but pay attention.”—Marta Barber, The Miami Herald on Gritos “Dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working-class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and drink and food and sleep and relief from the heat . . . are like no others. We need these stories.”—Annie Proulx on Woodcuts of Women “Gilb’s fiction is the most exciting and emotionally draining since Raymond Carver’s.” —The Nation on The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña

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october

Set during the Bosnian War and in its aftermath, Shards is a slyly affecting and stunningly inventive story of two young men—one who escapes the war by way of a theater troupe, and one who stays in Bosnia to fight. black cat shards A Novel

Ismet Prcic M elissa P rcic

• Prcic was the recipient of a 2010 “Ismet Prcic has taken apart the complexities of war, love, family, and National Endowment for the Arts home and scattered them across a novel that is as heartbreaking as it is Literature Fellowship for Fiction beautiful. Shards is an original work of art, brutal and honest, and abso- • Prcic’s work has been published lutely unforgettable.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the Air in Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Bat City Review, the smet Prcic’s brilliant and provocative debut novel is about a young Wazee Journal, and the Prague Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and Literary Review I is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to move forward he must “write everything.” • prepublication reading copies The result is a great rattle bag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly available humorous recollections of Ismet’s childhood in Tuzla appear alongside • 4-city tour anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. (Los Angeles • San Francisco • Portland • Seattle) And as Ismet’s foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further com- • online features and reviews plicated by stories from the point of view of another young man—real or imagined—named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in • major review coverage Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa’s story begins to overshadow Ismet’s New • IndieBound bookseller outreach World identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a • “Inside the Book” reading group life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. guide Shards is a thrilling read—a harrowing war story, a stunningly original • online promotion at coming-of-age novel, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family. Remark- www.ismetprcic.com able for its propulsive energy and stylistic daring, Shards marks the debut of a gloriously gifted writer.

$14.95 (Canada: $18.00) “The reason this novel is so good, hard, beautiful, and disturbing is that paperback original there is more than one Ismet delivering the many sharp pieces. Shards 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 400 pp. Fiction (FIC019000) feels like a primary document torn from life by a powerful new talent.” 978-0-8021-7081-1 —Ron Carlson, author of The Signal and Five Skies U.S. rights: Black Cat All other rights: Janklow & Nesbit (tel.: 212-421-1700) Export: USCO Residence: Portland, Oregon

24 Excerpt from black cat shards In wartime, when his country needed him the most—his shooting finger for defending, his body for a shield, his sanity and humanity as a sacrifice for future generations, his blood for fertilization of its soil—in these, most pressing times, Mustafa’s special forces combat training lasted twelve days. He ran the obstacle course exactly twenty-four times, he threw fake hand grenades through a truck tire from various distances exactly six times, he practiced marksmanship with an air rifle so that bullets were not wasted, he got covered with blankets and beaten by his peers for talking in his sleep at least once. He did countless push-ups and sit-ups, chin-ups and squats, lunges and curls, mindless repetitions designed not to make him fit but to break him, so that when he did break, the drill sergeant could instruct him in the ways of military hierar- chy and make him an effective combatant, one who was too scared to not follow orders and who would fucking die when he was told to fucking die. The knife guy taught him where to stick the knife for what effect and he stabbed hanging sacks of sand with people drawn on them. The mine guy showed him how to set up antivehicle mines and pointed out all their deadly charms. The army doctor took a swig of plum brandy and told him that war was a giant piece of shit and that he, Mustafa, was a chunk of corn in that shit and then warned him not to Ismet Prcic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in come to his office again until he had a gut wound so big 1977 and immigrated to America in 1996. Shards is his first he could canoe right through it. That was about it. novel.

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“A brilliant debut that manages to be both experimental and emotionally resonant. Comparisons to that other Bosnian-American writer, Aleksandar Hemon, will be unavoidable, but Prcic’s work is completely and wholly his own. Shards will come to be seen as the definitive novel of the Bosnian war and its resultant diaspora.”—Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust “Ismet Prcic’s prose is a gleaming pinball kept in inexhaustible play, kinetically suspended in time and space, endlessly flung away from its inevitable ending, colliding with memory and invention. This is writing fed by skill, inertia, horror, and sorrow, a survivor’s story of triumph and guilt. Yet Prcic’s sensibility is at once brutally and tenderly comic. Humanity seems to run deepest among those who have survived its near absence in the world.” —Brad Watson, author of Aliens in the Prime of their Lives “This novel moves at light speed, with shattering immediacy, through the parallel lives of two young Bosnian men—who may, in fact, be one person. Like fear, it will make you open your ears.”—Rae Armantrout, author of Versed “A passionate heart beats in these pages, devoted to the reassembling of a life sundered by war. Ismet Prcic’s debut novel, Shards, is an outsized, outrageous, outstanding performance.”—Christine Schutt, author of All Souls

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26 the mysterious press the mysterious press the mysterious the mysterious press Some people help the less fortunate; otherskillthem, Some peoplehelpthelessfortunate; welcome toHeadstone, Jack Taylor’s darkest nightmare. 28 Residence: Galway, Ireland USCO Export: quantity: 36 Carton All otherrights: U.S. rights:TheMysteriousPress 978-0-8021-2600-9 &Suspense(FIC022000) Mystery 6 x9,256pp. hardcover $24.00 (Canada:$28.95) • IndieBoundbookselleroutreach • socialnetworkmarketingcampaign and press mystery/thriller • target andreviews • onlinefeatures copies reading • prepublication • novelBlitzhasbeenmade • Bruen’s • Ken Bruen A Jack Taylor Novel Headstone october (tel.: 631-329-3650) AgencyInc. Philip G.SpizterLiterary on FacebookandTwitter media available Novel oftheYear inFrance The May 2011 in Jason Statham,tobereleased starring into amajormotionpicture Award and theBarry Best Novel,theMacavityAward, a finalistforanEdgarAward for Brigada21.Itwas Spain’s Premios Shamus Award for Best Noveland character JackTaylor, wonthe the whichintroduced The Guards, McDead

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A Taylor hasencountered mostofthem,andhasthescarstoprove it.But noth- Hammett,” Headstone, whohave committedaseriesofrandom,insane,violentcrimesin Galway, Ireland, which haslefteven thenationalpoliceshaken.AndJack is ing before terrifiedhimuntilheconfronts hasever an evil coterienamed truly in order tofightbackhemustrelinquish theremaining shreds ofwhathas mask of youngis disguised as innocence. the very might he bepowerless to stop it but that he may not have the utter grit needed made him human. especially vulnerable now because he has finally found love and happiness. of appalling violence alerts themtothesleepinghorror envelopingof appallingviolencealerts them.But of impending ferocity. to even faceit.Aterrificread from awritercalled “a CelticDashiell ofGalway.the heart In amomentofawfulclarity, Jack knows thatnotonly this realization istoolatetosave whatthey hold dear. The eviltheyencounter that happinessissomekindoftalisman,hewillfinditadark blessing and aspecial-needsboy attacked.Evil isbrutally hasmanyguisesandJack seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspectofJack’sseems likeitwillactasadeathknelltoevery life. Thinking Jack, slowly acceptingthesheerpower ofHeadstone, comestorealize that Jack’s usualallies,RidgeandStewart, are alsointhelineofterror. One act Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of his life and Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this organization cclaimed Irish crimewriterKen Bruen haswonnumerous awards for languages. In Headstone, anelderlypriestisnearlybeatentodeath his hard-charging, dark thrillers,whichhave beentranslatedintoten Headstone is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series.

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29 y y News —Publishers Weekl -—The Denver Post —New York Dail nominated for many awards, including two Edgars. two including many awards, for nominated received a PhD in metaphysics; taught English in metaphysics; taught English a PhD Ken Bruen received America; and Asia, and South Southeast in Africa, Japan, been have novels His then became a crime novelist. ington Post rick Anderson, the Wash at —P w York Times Book Review sio, the Ne yn Sta Praise for KEN BRUEN: —Maril of the incorrigible Jack Taylor.” grief and a fiercedriven to acts of violence out of wild guilt.” sense of “Ken Bruen is hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and the like, Bruen is definitely a writer to reckon with.” entertainment order of high in dealing with low instincts.” “Bruen’s furious, hard-boiled prose, chopped down to its trademark essence, and bleak noir sensibility—Bruen writes with extraordinary delicacy about a man “Bruen is a brilliant, lyrical, deeply moving writer who can make you laugh and cry walk off the page at you. If you like Ian Rankin, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, in the same paragraph and whose characters are so sharply portrayed that they almost “Bruen is an original, grimly hilarious and gloriously Irish. I await the further adventures never fails to astonish. . . . among the finest noir stylists of his generation.” “Bruen’s tommy-gun prose, lacerating dialogue, and hard-boiled combine to provide worldview headstone mother’s torn photo. She’d always wanted him to be a priest. photo. She’d torn mother’s Spat in his face. Spat the young people still had respect? the young hope till one hesitated, came back and, with slow and with slow hope till one hesitated, came back and, head, laughed. deadly aim, kicked him in the side of his world, Ma.” yah pervert?” He heard, “Who’s for a pint then?” for a pint “Who’s heard, He He fell back. He He made the drastic mistake of trying to get up; surely mistake of trying made the drastic surely to get up; He Right. The girl stood over him, sneered, “Trying to see up my skirt, “Trying him, sneered, The girl stood over The next kick broke his nose. broke The next kick A light rain began to fall, ruining what remained of his A light rain began to fall, ruining what remained of the “Top back in his head, he muttered, rolled As his eyes And shredded the photo into his face, paused, added, the photo into his face, paused, And shredded himself a tiny amount of he allowed away, As moved they Excerpt fromExcerpt “Forgive me Father, for YOU have sinned.” have YOU for me Father, “Forgive “Nearly forgot this.” “Nearly the mysterious press Joyce Carol Oates, oneoftheworlds’ greatest A chillingvolume ofstoriesandnovellas by and mostprolific writers 30 Residence: Princeton, NewJersey USCO Export: quantity: 32 Carton All otherrights: World rightsex.SwedenandFrance: 978-0-8021-2602-3 Fiction (FIC029000) 5 1/2x81/4,224pp. hardcover $24.00 • onlinepromotion press mystery/thriller • target coverage • majorreview • • Joyce OateswontheNational Carol Joyce Carol Oates Novellas andStories ofUnspeakable Dread and OtherNightmares The CornMaiden november (tel.: 212-807-7040) John Hawkins&AssociatesInc. The MysteriousPress and media Prize inLiterature been nominatedforthePulitzer Club,andhas the NationalArts from Medal ofHonorinLiterature Lifetime AchievementAward, the theChicagoTribunein Literature, Award forDistinguished Service Story,Short theCommonwealth for ContinuedAchievementinthe Prize Fiction,theO.Henry in Short PEN/Malamud Award forExcellence ofthe Oates hasbeentherecipient occasions nominated fortheprizeonsixother Book Award forThem , andhasbeen

A Joyce Carol Oates’s standing as one of the world’s greatest writers of suspense. ing andshepanics. The policewanttoknow whysheleftheryoung daughter meets amanintheunlikelyclutterofdingycharity shopandextends color ofcornsilk.Her singlemothercomeshomeonenighttofindhermiss- obvious—point directly tohim.Unsuspected isJudah (bornJudith), anolder legend of the Corn Maiden, in which a girl is sacrificed to ensure a good crop. knows shewillbeaccusedofneglect,orworse.Suspicion fallsonacomputer power, givingthe tale unbearable tension with a shocking conclusion. has no idea what kinds of doors she may be opening. toovercomethe mind-setofavictimstruggling hershynessandfears,she teacher atMarissa’s schoolwhohasnoalibi.Obvious clues—perhapstoo girls, pleasedtobeincluded,andisthenconvincedthatthe worldhasended girl from thesameschoolwhohastoldtwofriendsinherthrallofIndian friendship, whichsoonturnstoquietand unacknowledged desire. With and that they are Remaining the last survivors. an unaware hostage for days, alone until8:00p.m. With theconfessionthatshe’d beenwithaman,she a beautifulandsweetslow butsomewhat eleven-year-old girlwithhairthe seemingly inevitablefatebecomesever more terrifyingasJudah relishes her she grows weaker onasparsedietasJudah prepares herforsacrifice.Marissa’s enhanceThe powerful collection further stories inthisextraordinary MarissaThe trusting goeshappilytoasecludedbasementwiththeolder In “Helping Hands,” publishedhere forthefirsttime,alonelywoman and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spinssiximaginative talesof The Corn Maiden inallforms,TheCorn n incomparablemasterstoryteller suspense. “The CornMaiden”suspense. “The ofMarissa, isthegut-wrenching story

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Vidal at his mostvitriolic, and you get There are some complications,includingHerbie’s deathinaction,Miss Ball’s Herbie’s motherandtheymove intogetheratMiss Ball’s rooming house. Since Herbie isfightingforAmerica,Mr. Gibbon feelsthathe,too,shoulddo jealous Puerto Ricanlover, unavoidable andafew murders—not tomention works atKant-Brake. When Herbie isdrafted,Mr. Gibbon fallsinlove with which manufactures military toyswhich manufactures for children. military His income keeps hischoco- late-loving mother, whotipsthescalesasmidgeonover twohundred him intheventure. They decidetorob theMount Holly Trust Company Mr.pounds, from starvation. Gibbon, apatrioticveteran ofthree wars,also three people over in broad sixty pulling off daylight. a bank robbery to leave collegeandgetajob, andhelandsoneattheKant-Brake toy factory, because itismanagedby asmalldark manwhoisprobably acommunist. something for his country andconvincesMiss Ballsomething forhiscountry andMrs.Gneiss tojoin P During thetimeofLyndon Johnson’s presidency, Herbie Gneiss isforced Combine Donald E. Westlake withAbbie Hoffman, addabitofGore weirdos unlike anything he has ever written. travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of1960stravel booksandhisfiction,hasproduced anoff-beatstory aul Theroux, oneoftheworld’s mostpopularauthors,bothforhis Murder in Mount Holly.

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y On Dark St y Bazaar a y Bazaar w a w — the Philadelphia Inquirer —Newsda t Rail t Rail —the Plain Dealer (Cleveland) —Chicago Tribune is a novelist and travel writer of such best writer of such best and travel l Theroux is a novelist Pau Coast. and The Mosquito Railway Bazaar sellers as The Great Peter by directed The latter was made into a successful film Ford. Harrison starring and Weir —Newsweek On The Grea aul theroux: —the New York Times On The Grea —the New York Times Book Review Praise for P he can evoke as if they were home.” y “Stylistically elegant and sardonic.” crotchety traveling companion.” number He dazzles not just with the number of places he writes about but the his first few lines. able to hook you with “Theroux is an irresistible storyteller, the marvelous. It is like all good journeys should be.” “Theroux Conrad, or perhaps has established himself in the tradition of Somerset Maugham.” to look at the familiar in a fresh, original way—and make us richer for it.” “An entertaining, railroad eccentric journey through Asia, with the author a consistently amusing, “Sparkling prose. . . Even the quietist moments come alive on the page.” “What makes Paul Theroux separates the fine writers from so good is what always the pack: his ability “Reading Theroux becomes a journey of the unexpected, the comedic, the bureaucratically tangled and n Mount Holl in Mount Murder a few minutes of pleasure in the bed of a beautiful woman. a few minutes of pleasure behind her ears, and on her neck. behind her ears, and kisses in the broom closet? He couldn’t stand it any longer. longer. stand it any couldn’t closet? He kisses in the broom and grunt. understood the urge and let him paw her She the attraction that a woman’s flesh had for men. They They men. flesh had for the attraction that a woman’s tellers. They had little or nothing to do with the storing little or nothing to do with the storing had They tellers. of checking the cans of floor wax, covered her with rancid her of checking the cans of floor wax, covered of money. They just collected it. just collected They of money. could lure anyone. It gave her a feeling of power. She knew She her a feeling of power. gave It anyone. could lure on the pretext many times had Juan, it. How resist couldn’t her round body solid with corsets and fixtures, Miss Ball Miss and fixtures, solid with corsets body her round circles, her lips gleaming with the scarlet goo of nearly one goo of nearly with the scarlet her lips gleaming circles, Miss Ball rather enjoyed standing there. Like a siren, she Like a siren, standing there. rather enjoyed Ball Miss who had given in to the low murmur of beckoning flesh. murmur in to the low who had given walking back and forth and inside the bank, accountants waddled to the back door of the Mount Holly Trust Trust Holly Mount the back door of the waddled to whole tube of lipstick, her hair a stiff mass of tight curls, a stiff mass of tight of lipstick, her hair whole tube Her face chalky with make-up, her cheeks rouged with rouged make-up, her cheeks face chalky with Her Fortunes, whole countries had been lost, careers ruined for whole countries had been lost, careers Fortunes, Duty meant nothing. History stories of men was full of the Duty Beads of perspiration appeared at Miss Ball’s hairline, Ball’s at Miss appeared Beads of perspiration Company and looked for a bank guard to lure. to for a bank guard Company and looked hot. and the sun was very was the middle of the afternoon It This caused the make-up to run a bit and get very sticky. sticky. to runThis caused the make-up get very a bit and There seemed to be no one to lure. She could see people She seemed to be no one to lure. There Excerpt fromExcerpt paperback paperbacks Grove Press paperback

35 ). Booklist —San Francisco Chronicle Francisco —San World Made by Hand: Praise for Praise post-oil society in America in this “suspenseful, darkly amusing story amusing story darkly this “suspenseful, in in America post-oil society enowned social commentator and best-selling author James Howard Howard author James social commentator and best-selling enowned expands on his vision of expands on his vision of Hand, by Made sequel to World Kunstler’s In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, the electricity has flickered the electricity has flickered York, New Grove, the tiny hamlet of Union In seamlessly convincing, Kunstler eerily shocking yet is both that novel a In R and illness is a constant presence. Bandits roam the countryside, preying on the countryside, roam on Bandits preying and illness is a constant presence. author of ten other novels and four nonfiction books. nonfiction four and novels other of ten author —Chicago Tribune bombings and industrial decline.”—Chicago Tribune major terrorist tization of what small-town American life might be like in the wake of American life might be like in the wake of tization of what small-town —The New Yorker that await us.”—The New the weak and a sinister cult threatens to shatter the town’s fragile stability. stability. fragile town’s the shatter to threatens cult sinister a and weak the lost, and love found. love and lost, rating tale whose ultimate message is one of hope, not despair.” off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a than a little more is and the government is a distant memory, the Internet off, hysteria, innocence religious of violence, change into a compelling narrative rumor. Travel is horse-drawn and farming is back at the center of life, but horse-drawn and farming is back at the center of life, but is Travel rumor. weaves hot-button issues such as the decline of oil and the perils of climate climate of perils the and oil of decline the as such issues hot-button weaves with touches of the fantastic in the mode of Washington Irving” ( Irving” Washington of the mode in fantastic the of touches with Union Grove is no pastoral haven. Wars are fought over dwindling resources resources dwindling fought over are Wars is no pastoral haven. Grove Union

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“A remarkable .LikeAncestor featofstorytelling Stones, Forna’s debut, “A andendurance.Forna’s ofbrutality soft-spokenstory insight, The Memory ofLoveThe Memory drawsusintothelives ofitsprotagonists from the With astounding depth and elegance, it takes the reader through the haunting With Elsewhere inthehospitalliesElias Cole,amanwhowasyoung during the very nature very of love. country’s turbulentpostcolonialyears andhasstoriestotellthatare farfrom drawn unwittinglycloserby Adrian, aBritish psychiatrist withgoodinten- entire populacewithsecrets tokeep. In thecapitalhospitalKai,agiftedyoung ingly, memorablyevoked inthismultistrandednarrative from a tions, and into the path of one woman at the center of their stories. heroic. Aspastandpresent intersectinthe buzzingcity, KaiandElias are elegance andelegiactonenever falter. Tragedy anditsaftermath are affect- two generations of African life. absolution, and the indelible effectsof the past—and,at the end ofit all, the atmosphere of a country atwar,atmosphere ofacountry thepowerful delicately intertwining storiesof first fewpassages.Andjustasquickly, itcarriesusawaywithathrilling seamlessly weaves together the lives of these three of loss, men to create a story surgeon isplaguedby demonsthatare beginningtothreaten hislivelihood. story offriendshipandbetrayal.”—Karen Holt,story Essence significant talent.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) S A work ofbreathtaking writingandrare wisdom,TheMemoryofLove In contemporary Freetown,In contemporary Sierra Leone,adevastating civilwarhasleft an Memory ofLove, hasbeenhailedasabookofrare beautyandimportance, ince itspublicationinhardcover, AminattaForna’s novel, new The and has beennominatedforthe2011Orange Prize forFiction.

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“Often darkly funny, written with gritty realism and tenderness, The Memory of Love is a profoundly affecting work.”—Kiran Desai, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss “[An] elegantly rendered novel of loss and rehabilitation . . . [that] coalesces into an ambitious exploration of trauma and storytelling.” —Jessica Loudis, San Francisco Chronicle “[A] stunning and powerful portrait.” —Kristine Huntley, Booklist “The author’s visceral appreciation of her troubled country is evident on every page of The Memory of Love. So, too, is her probing intelligence—and her compassion.” —Brooke Allen, Salon.com “A sprawling epic novel of love in Sierra Leone from Aminatta Forna, a rising literary star.” —Marie Claire “She threads her stories like music, imperceptibly into the reader’s consciousness. One is left hauntingly familiar with the distant and alien; not quite able to distinguish Aminatta Forna is also the author of Ancestor Stones, a the emotional spirits of fiction from the novel, and The Devil That Danced on the Water, a memoir of her scars of reality.”—Sam Kiley, The Times (london) activist father and her country, Sierra Leone. “Powerful and necessary reading.” —Karen Briggs, Shelf Awareness (online) “To read The Memory of Love is to experience, “The most significant novel that I have read not simply learn about, the inner existences of since Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence. its characters, even as they lapse in and out of . . . This is an extraordinary meditation on the their lives.”—Anjali Joseph, Times Literary Supplement capacity that men and women have to survive in the midst of the most overwhelming “A striking study of the past and present of a obstacles. . . . The Memory of Love country whose name calls up twisted images is the first major novel of the new decade.” of beautiful beaches, blood diamonds, and child —Charles R. Larson, CounterPunch (online) soldiers. . . . An ambitious novel, but one that richly rewards the committed reader.” “It is difficult to confine a commentary about —Lauren Bufferd, Book Page The Memory of Love to a paragraph, so grand are the dimensions of this wise, compassionate “In careful, precise prose, Forna makes even the novel. . . . beautiful, captivating, tormented.” seemingly commonplace details meaningful.” —Philip Caputo, author of Rumor of War —Nora Dunne, The Christian Science Monitor

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“[A] merciless but often humorous look at the shortcomings of American politics . . . Whether readers agree with O’Rourke’s politics or not, his style is funny, cutting, and insightful.”—Booklist paperback Don’t Vote—It Just Encourages the Bastards

P. J. O’Rourke j ames kegley

• tie in with author lecture schedule on’t Vote—It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, • 10-city radio satellite tour hilarious, and ultimately sobering look at why politics and politicians • academic marketing D are a necessary evil—but only just barely necessary. P.J. presents his • online promotion at Sex, Death, and Boredom Theory of Politics, which breaks the social contract www.pjorourke.com down to power, freedom, and responsibility by using the party game “Kill, • online point-of-purchase material F@#%, Marry,” more typically found at late-night giggle sessions at all-girls boarding schools. • newsletter cooperative advertising available With this tripartite lens of politics, O’Rourke looks at the financial crisis (“The best investment I’ve made lately? I left a $20 bill in the pocket of my • also available as a Brilliance audiobook tweed jacket last spring, and I just found it”), the bailout, health-care reform (“Something doesn’t add up. Politicians are telling me that I can smoke, drink, gain two hundred pounds, then win an Ironman Triathlon at age ninety-five”), the stimulus package, climate change (“There’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it. . . . There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick”), campaign finance reform, gun control, No Child Left Behind (“What if they deserve to be left behind?”), and pretty much everything else under the sun. His findings: Put the country’s big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks that are the Senate and the House. Read P. J. O’Rourke on the pathetic nature of politics and laugh through your tears or—what the hell—just laugh. $14.95 (Canada: $17.95) paperback 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 304 pp. Nonfiction, Political Science (POL010000) 978-0-8021-4543-7 World rights: Grove Press Performance rights: author, c/o of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Carton quantity: 36 Export: USCO Residence: New Hampshire

38 paperback Praise for don’t vote:

“A real page-turner. You may find yourself staying up way past your bedtime because you just can’t put it down. . . . In Don’t Vote, O’Rourke has elevated his game to a Buckley-like level. Read it and you’ll elevate your game too.”—The Daily Caller “The man is intelligent, articulate, and very funny.”—TheAustinist.com “P. J. O’Rourke is not only knowledgeable, he’s one of the best writers the Right has ever produced. Additionally, he’s the single best foreign-affairs reporter I’ve ever read. Nobody makes another country come alive like P. J. O’Rourke.”—RightWingNews.com “[O’Rourke’s] take on things in this book is savage, biting, and often spot-on. You may need to turn off your obscenity meter while you’re reading it, as it’s about as irreverent as anything I’ve read since Rape of the A*P*E*. . . . Politics is a dirty game, and O’Rourke doesn’t seem to mind getting down and talking dirty.” —steelBookshelf.com “A splendid writer and critic of our P. J. O’Rourke is the author of thirteen books, including current political and social scene.” Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, both of which —the Emporia Gazette (kansas) were #1 New York Times best sellers. “The timing is perfect for the witty sanity of P. J. O’Rourke to remind us how intellectually bracing unfashionable views can be. . . . He is fearless and funny. Whether you agree with him or not, particularly if not, you should read him. He restores much-needed disorder to the political debate.”—Evening Standard “Like Hunter S. Thompson, P. J. O’Rourke’s notoriety for fast living overshadows a deep Also available: interest in politics. . . . O’Rourke is widely read Eat the Rich On The Wealth of Nations and he quotes from the likes of Hayek, (978-0-87113-760-9 • $14.00 • (978-0-8021-4342-6 • $13.00 • USO) Burke, Paine, and Kipling.”—Metro USCO) Parliament of Whores Modern Manners (978-0-8021-3970-2 • $14.00 • “P.J. O’Rourke is what happens when (978-0-87113-375-5 • $13.00 • USCO) America does Grumpy Old Men. Instead of USCO) sour-faced curmudgeons bleating that ‘politics is just a load of crap,’ you get a succession of amusing and incisive observations about why politics is a load of crap.”—the Spectator

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“An unbearably tense account of two musicians whose lives and careers are shattered in the aftermath of the Anschluss . . . Lawton keeps his historical perspective on the war while introducing new characters and adding layers of political subtext to the plot.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times paperback A Lily of the Field

John Lawton

• Selected as one of nine best ocke tt thrillers of the year in the

Los Angeles Times Holiday N ick L Gift Guide of 2010 • Named one of The New York Times “If the previous seven installments in John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series Book Review’s Best Thrillers of 2010 haven’t made the point adequately, the eighth, A Lily of the Field, makes it again, and solidly: Lawton’s thrillers provide a vivid, moving and wonder- Also available: fully absorbing way to experience life in London and on the Continent Flesh Wounds before, during and after World War II.” (978-0-8021-4230-6 • $12.00 • USO) —Gerald Bartell, The Washington Post A Little White Death (978-0-8021-4290-0 • $12.00 • USO) elected by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times as one of the best Second Violin thrillers of 2010, John Lawton’s A Lily of the Field is a remarkable story (978-0-8021-4431-7 • $14.00 • USOxE) Sthat moves from Vienna to London to the United States and follows the loosely parallel lives of cellist Méret Voytek and physicist Karl Szabo at a pivotal moment in history. The novel opens in Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old Méret Voytek becomes a pupil of esteemed musician Professor Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Ger- many. Three years later, aware that the Nazis are advancing, Rosen tells his promising pupil that he must leave Vienna for London. When Vienna quietly comes under Nazi rule, Méret witnesses the repercussions for the city’s Jews, but when her orchestra becomes a division of the Hitler Youth, she complies and wears the uniform. Meanwhile, across Europe, Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hun- garian physicist, has been interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. Shortly $14.95 (Canada: $17.95) thereafter, Szabo is transported to Canada and rescued by the Americans, who paperback recruit him to the team in New Mexico building the atom bomb. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 400 pp. Thriller (FIC030000) In his eighth Inspector Troy novel, Lawton moves seamlessly from Vienna 978-0-8021-4546-8 and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and London, illustrating the fas- World rights: Grove Press cinating parallels in the lives of the enemy alien Szabo and the gentile Voytek Foreign rights sold: Karakter (Holland) All other rights: as fate carries each across the distinct and untraditional battlefields of the war Aitken Alexander Associates, Ltd. to an unexpected intersection at the novel’s close. A Lily of the Field is Law- (London, tel.: 207-373-8672) Carton quantity: 36 ton’s best book yet, a historically accurate and remarkably written novel that Export: USCO explores the diaspora of two Europeans from the rise of Hitler in the Previous ISBN: 978-0-8021-1956-8 Residence: England postatomic age.

40 paperback Praise for A lily of the field:

“Lawton has always pushed the boundaries of the series crime novel, edging ever closer to broad-canvas historical fiction, but this time he has leaped the fence altogether. Like Dennis Lehane in The Given Day, Lawton introduces multiple characters and stories in a sweeping tale that comes together at a particular historical moment, but unlike Lehane, he does all that without abandoning his series hero or the continuity established in the previous volumes . . . A truly multi-textured tale.” —Booklist (Starred Review) “Another complex and compellingly readable historic thriller from Lawton, full of profound questions and memorable characters.” —Kirkus Reviews “[Lawton’s] work stands head and shoulders above most other contemporary thrillers, earning those comparisons to le Carré.” —Clea Simon, The Boston Globe

“If you love mystery and history, run out and pick up a book by Lawton, author of the superb Inspector Troy novels.” —Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times JOHN LAWTON is the author of nine novels, including “Readers will enjoy this profound tale that takes Second Violin, Flesh Wounds, and Bluffing Mr. Churchill. His the audience from the beginning of the Nazi thriller Black Out won a WH Smith Fresh Talent Award, while aggression into the beginning of the Cold War.” A Little White Death was a New York Times notable book. He —Harriet Klausner, Midwest Book Review lives in Derbyshire, England, but can often be found (or lost)

“Those expecting a conventional crime novel elsewhere. should be prepared for two distinct stories with overlapping characters, only one of which “A fascinating story that incorporates accident, involves a criminal investigation.” murder, mass murder, and espionage, which —Publishers Weekly evokes the best of John le Carré. . . . it’s the “Few novelists have given me more pleasure work of a writer at the peak of his powers.” in recent years than John Lawton. . . . Lawton —Margaret Cannon, the Globe and Mail writes with such style, intelligence, irreverence, “Top-notch police/espionage . . . Such a grand political sophistication and keen understanding tapestry with so much vibrant color and form of the strengths, weaknesses and glorious that the book belongs on the shelf squarely eccentricities of his fellow Brits.” between John le Carré and Alan Furst . . . There —Patrick Anderson, the Washington Post are enough layers, and enough beautifully “Lawton deftly lays out Europe as it changed, wrought satisfactions, that this book goes onto with all of its intimate costs exposed.” my ‘desert island’ list: a book I’d be willing to —Clea Simon, The Boston Phoenix read multiple times.”—Beth Kanell, Kingdom Books

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“The Last Narco gracefully captures the heroic struggle of those who dare to stand up to the cartels, and the ways those cartels have tragically corrupted every aspect of Mexican law enforcement.” —Laura Bickford, producer of the film Traffic paperback The Last Narco Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World’s Most Wanted Drug Lord

Malcolm Beith

• also available as a Tantor “Malcolm Beith’s book is a virtual nonstop chase.” audiobook —David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal

he dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is T among the world’s ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazine’s 2009 billionaire list. With his massive wealth, his army of profes- sional killers, and a network of informants that reaches into the highest levels of government, catching Guzman was considered impossible—until now. Newly isolated by infighting among the cartels, and with Mexican and DEA authorities closing in, El Chapo is vulnerable as never before. Newsweek correspondent Malcolm Beith has spent years reporting on the drug wars and follows the chase with full access to senior officials and exclusive interviews with soldiers and drug traffickers in the region, including members of Guz- man’s cartel. The Last Narco combines fearless reporting with the story of El Chapo’s legendary rise from a poor farming family to the capo of the world’s largest drug empire. The Last Narco is essential reading about one of the most pressing and dramatic stories in the news today—a true-crime thriller happen- ing in real time. “The Last Narco is a brave and terrific headlong journalistic trek into the $15.95 dangerous, and immensely relevant, terrain of drug trafficking in Mexico, paperback 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 288 pp. and the life and times of its foremost practitioner.” Nonfiction, Biography (BIO024000) —Sam Quinones, author of True Tales from Another Mexico 978-0-8021-4548-2 U.S. rights: Grove Press Malcolm Beith is based in Mexico City. He has covered the drug war for All other rights: Penguin Group UK (London, tel.: 207-010-3396) Newsweek, and has contributed to Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, and Jane’s Carton quantity: 36 Intelligence Weekly. He has also reported from Iraq, Haiti, and Colombia. Export: USOxE Previous ISBN: 978-0-8021-1952-0 Residence: Mexico City

42 october paperback

“Phil Bredesen knows the American health-care system inside and out. He knows both the theory and, more importantly, how things really work. His perspective is unique and wise; if you’re interested in health reform, you’d do well to read and consider what he has to say.”—Senator Bill Frist, MD

Fresh Medicine How to Fix Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System

Philip Bredesen

• As an individual with decades “In this important new look at a topic of urgent concern to the country, of experience in the health care Phil Bredesen does something unique: he brings together the perspectives industry as the founder and CEO of a businessman, a politician, and an historian to tell the story of health of HealthAmerica Corporation, a public managed-care company, care in America. Told with skill and grace, Fresh Medicine explains how and former two term governor we got where we are, and what we have to do going forward. Bredesen has of Tennessee, Philip Bredesen given all of us a great gift.” —Jon Meacham, author of American Lion provides a unique perspective in ow in paperback, Fresh Medicine by Philip Bredesen is a bold, nonpar- the health care debate tisan, and definitive take on what is wrong with health care in America, how it got there, and how we can fix it. Bredesen begins by • tie in with author lecture schedule N exploring the problems with the new reform. Congress and the Obama • 10-city radio satellite tour Administration have added over thirty million more people into an obsolete • op-eds at publication and broken system, and done little to address the underlying problems, he • academic marketing argues. Bredesen then looks back and explains how the system evolved over the past century, from the local doctor making house calls to today’s sprawling insurance model. Although health insurance started out as real insurance to cover hospitalization, Bredesen argues that what it pays for today is vastly different: drugs, doctor visits, and the treatment of chronic disease that extends over many years. American health care, Bredesen asserts, needs to be reset on a new founda- tion, one step at a time. Without dealing with the tough problems—cost, sustainability, $14.95 (Canada: $17.95) and quality—true reform will be elusive. In Fresh Medicine, Bredesen harnesses paperback thirty years of experience to offer a new solution to a big problem. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 288 pp. Nonfiction, Medical & Health Policy (MED036000) 978-0-8021-4547-5 U.S. and Canadian rights: Grove Press All other rights: Philip Bredesen served as the Democratic governor of Tennessee from William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (tel.: 212-586-5100) 2003 to 2011. Before being elected governor in 2002, and reelected in 2006, Carton quantity: 36 he was mayor of Nashville and, prior to that, the founder and CEO of Export: USCO Previous ISBN: 978-0-8021-1938-4 HealthAmerica Corporation, a public managed-care company. Bredesen Residence: Nashville, TN graduated from Harvard in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in physics.

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october

This comedy captures the animated society of New Orleans before the city became part of the United States. paperback A Free Man of Color A Play

John Guare

• With the recent Lincoln Center “[A Free Man of Color] . . . might be a masterpiece. . . . one of the three or production of A Free Man of four most stirring new plays I’ve seen.” Color (Fall 2010) and the Spring —Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal 2011 revival of The House of Blue Leaves, Guare is in the news ohn Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free and prominently in the minds of Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisi- theatergoers and the theater media J ana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class, racial, and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine, and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is the mulatto Jacques Cornet, who commands men, seduces women, and preens like a peacock. But it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase brings American rule and racial segre- gation to the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that he represents, turning the tables on freedom and liberty. “A Free Man of Color evolves from a bustling farce into something deeper and darker but similarly exhilarating.” —USA Today

“A sumptuous table set with brocaded poesy, luxurious allusion, and hallucinatory imagery.” —Scott Brown, New York

John Guare is the Tony, Obie, and New York Drama Critics Circle Award– winning playwright of House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Landscape $14.95 (Canada: $17.95) of the Body, and A Few Stout Individuals. He coedits the Lincoln Center Theater paperback original Review, teaches playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, is a council member of the 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 112 pp. Drama (DRA001000) Dramatists Guild, a trustee of PEN America, and received the Gold Medal in 978-0-8021-4566-6 Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. U.S. and Canadian rights: Grove Press All other rights: International Creative Management (tel.: 212-556-5600) Carton quantity: 36 Export: USCO Residence: New York City

44 november paperback

“Kadare is inevitably linked to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. . . . He so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality . . . [and] provides an extraordinarily lucid analysis of incomprehensibility.” —James Wood, The New Yorker The Accident

Ismail Kadare Translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson

• The Accident was a New York Times “Absorbing . . . In his layering of truth-quests, Kadare [echoes] the experi- Editors’ Choice and a Huffington mental-fiction writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jorge Luis Borges . . . Post Most Anticipated Novel of A gripping account of a star-crossed romance.” 2010 —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal • In 2005 Kadare became the first winner of the Man Booker rom Man Booker International Prize winner Ismail Kadare comes a diz- International Prize zying psychological thriller set against the tumultuous backdrop of the F war in the Balkans. The Accident opens on a rainy morning in Vienna. Also available: A taxi pulls onto the autobahn only to crash into the median barrier moments The Siege later, hurling its two passengers—a man and a woman—from the backseat. (978-0-8021-4475-1 • $15.00 • US) The driver cannot explain why he lost control; he says only that the mysteri- ous couple seemed to be about to kiss. As the investigation into their deaths deepens, a lonely researcher will uncover a mutually destructive relationship that blurs the line between fact and fiction, fear and desire, and love and fixation over the course of twelve years. An alluring mixture of vivid hallucination and cold reality, The Accident is a bold and fascinating fever dream of a novel. “A provocative exploration of the sinister underside of human relations . . . [and a] compulsive and unnerving excavation of love, power, and the imperfect art of storytelling.” —Mary Fitzgerald, The Observer “Rich and strange . . . Kadare has constructed a maze of maybes where $14.00 opaque motivations lead to startling ramifications.” paperback —Abigail Deutsch, San Francisco Chronicle 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 272 pp. Fiction (FIC019000) 978-0-8021-4551-2 “Essential reading.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR U.S. rights: Grove Press All other rights: Canongate Books Ltd. Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in Albania. His work has been translated (Edinburgh, tel.: 131-557-51111) into more than forty languages, and in 2005 he was the first winner of the Man Carton quantity: 36 Export: US Booker International Prize. Previous ISBN: 978-0-8021-2995-6 Residence: Paris

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“[A] sly, funny, absorbing novel, lovingly translated by With four new chapters, this updated edition of United Danuta Borchardt.” Nations: A History completes the story of the UN’s last —Neil Gordon, The New York Times Book Review sixty-five years, its successes and turbulent past. paperback Cosmos United Nations

Witold Gombrowicz A History Translated from the Polish Stanley Meisler by Danuta Borchardt

ilan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz “one of the “Balanced and insightful, this book is a must for anyone who great novelists of our century.” His most famous novel, wants to understand where the UN has been and, more impor- MCosmos, the recipient of the 1967 International Prize tantly, how we might best use its potential for the future.” for literature, is now available in a critically acclaimed translation —Thomas R. Pickering, by the award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt. former U.S. ambassador to Russia and to the UN Cosmos is a metaphysical noir thriller narrated by Witold, a nited Nations: A History begins with the creation of the seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling organization in 1945. Although its aim was to prevent war, by turns. On his way to a relaxing vacation he meets the despon- U many conflicts have arisen, ranging from the Korean War dent Fuks. As they set off together for a family-run pension in the to the Six-Day War, to genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda. Stanley Carpathian Mountains where they discover a dead bird hanging Meisler’s in-depth research examines the crises and many key politi- from a string. Is this a strange but meaningless occurrence or is it cal leaders. In this second edition, Meisler brings his popular the beginning of a string of bizarre events? history up to date with accounts of the power struggles of the last “A master of verbal burlesque, a connoisseur of psychological fifteen years, specifically spotlighting the terms of secretaries- blackmail.” —John Updike general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan, and Ban Ki-moon. This is an important, riveting, and impartial guide through the past and “Cosmos is a vicious and uncompromised little gem of the recent events of the sixty-five-year history of the United Nations. obscene.” —Adam Novy, The Believer “Stanley Meisler tells the story of the United Nations, its prom- “Probably the most important twentieth-century novelist that ise and its problems, with clarity and authority. This is a most Western readers have never heard of.” definitive account of the United Nations for a general audi- —Benjamin Paloff, Words Without Borders ence, told by a master.”—Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) is the author of many Stanley Meisler, the author of three books, served as a corre- novels and plays including Ferdydurke and Pornografia, as well as the spondent for the Los Angeles Times for thirty years, He still three-volume Diaries. contributes articles to the Times and writes commentary for his Web All other rights: site, www.stanleymeisler.com. The Wylie Agency, Inc. $14.95 (Canada: $17.95) (tel.: 212-246-0069) U.S. and Canadian rights: paperback Carton quantity: 36 $17.00 (Canada: $20.95) Grove Press 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 248 pp. Export: USCO paperback Previous ISBN: Fiction (FIC019000) Translator’s residence: 6 x 9, 496 pp. 978-0-87113-656-5 978-0-8021-4562-8 Gloucester, MA 16 black-and-white photos Carton quantity: 28 U.S. and Canadian rights: Previous edition: History (HIS037000) Export: USCO Grove Press 9780300108484 978-0-8021-4529-1 Residence: Washington, DC

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“The kind of whodunit thriller you can’t stop thinking about while you’re reading and can’t stop talking about once you’re done. Smart, original, crafted with true insider knowledge, and brimming with vivid characters, and a forward drive that just won’t quit . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Vince Flynn

The Inside Ring A Joe DeMarco Thriller

Mike Lawson

• The Inside Ring was a Seattle “[A] wonderfully complex plot, sardonic humor, and memorable characters Times Top-Ten Thriller of the Year . . . In two words . . . more please.” —Sarah Weinman, The Baltimore Sun • Lawson is a two-time Barry Award finalist ike Lawson’s thrillers featuring Joe DeMarco, fixer for John Fitzpat- • House Secrets was an Indie Next rick Mahoney, the hard-drinking Speaker of the House, have won Selection M him a dedicated following of readers and lots of critical praise. Originally published in 2005, The Inside Ring marked the debut of a fresh new • online promotion at voice in political thrillers, and Grove Press is delighted to be reissuing the first www.mikelawsonbooks.com installment of this celebrated series. The Inside Ring begins with an assassination attempt on the president. He Also available: is wounded, and his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. It turns House Divided out, however, that the attack wasn’t without warning. Secretary of Homeland (978-0-8021-1978-0 • $23.00 • USCO) Security, General Andrew Banks, received a note prior to the attempt warning House Rules that the president was in danger and, even more alarming, that Secret Service (978-0-8021-4419-5 • $7.99 • USCO) agents guarding the president had been compromised. Banks is reluctant to House Secrets tell the FBI about the warning note, partly for self-serving political reasons, (978-0-8021-4480-5 • $7.99 • USCO) House Justice and partly because he doesn’t want to damage the Secret Service’s reputation. (978-0-8021-4535-2 • $7.99 • USCO) Banks requests help from his friend, House Speaker Mahoney, who assigns his man DeMarco to determine if the Secret Service was really involved in the assassination attempt. Full of humor and suspense, The Inside Ring is classic Lawson, and a must-read for thriller fans. $7.99 mass market paperback “Fresh and entertaining . . . an assured debut . . . A tight and engaging 4 3/16 x 6 7/8, 544 pp. story, sharp writing, and dialogue that’s good to the last line.” Thriller (FIC031000) —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 978-0-8021-4559-8 U.S. and Canadian rights: Grove Press All other rights: “While Lawson’s debut may look like others in the genre, it’s in a league by The Gernert Company itself. . . . High-level entertainment from a writer who could soon rise to (tel.: 212-838-7777) Carton quantity: 36 the top of the thriller heap.” —Publishers Weekly Export: USCO Previous ISBN: 978-1-4000-9514-8 Mike Lawson is a former senior civilian executive for the U.S. Navy. He is the Residence: Seattle author of six novels starring Joe DeMarco.

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“[Barry Hannah] is like Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Grace Paley, and Nathanael West, writers who borrowed what they found useful in American traditions, and left the rest behind. . . . [His stories are] so full of agony in one paragraph, so irreverent in the next, and so beautiful as a whole.” –Boston Globe paperback Long, Last, Happy New and Selected Stories

Barry Hannah

• Long, Last, Happy was chosen as a “Audacious, thrilling, and astute, the stories in this collection—written New Yorker Best Book of 2010, and over the course of nearly half a century—showcase the genius of the late, one of Amazon’s Best Books great Southern writer.” —O, The Oprah Magazine of the Month (December 2010) • Serialized in Harper’s and on idely recognized as a master of American short fiction, Barry Han- fivechapters.com nah was one of the most important writers of the South’s • In his lifetime, Barry Hannah was W post-Faulkner generation. With an inimitable voice and vivid prose, honored with an Academy Award he paved the way for a new wave of young writers, introducing a world in in Literature by the American which Mississippi pier fishermen, small-town prevaricators, and veterans of Academy of Arts and Letters, nominations for the American the Civil and Gulf Wars met a mythic, mold-breaking voice with echoes of Book Award and the National Book Beckett, bebop, and the Bible. Now in paperback, the best of the four story Award, a William Faulkner Prize, collections he published during his lifetime, plus four new stories from the the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction final manuscripts he left behind and one early-career story never published in Award, and his body of work has volume form coalesce into Long, Last, Happy, the definitive collection of, and been recognized with the PEN/ brilliant tribute to, the work of Barry Hannah. Malamud Award for Short Fiction “Hannah’s lines invigorate and intoxicate . . . Hannah was a storyteller, an • academic marketing enchanter with a refined eye for the outrageous, and an ecstatic worldli- ness worthy of Rabelais. Long, Last, Happy is a triumph: nearly faultless, every page a raging pleasure.” —Justin Taylor, The New York Times Book Review

$15.95 (Canada: $18.95) “I’d never realized Southern literature—any literature—could do this. . . . paperback It forms a stunning, defiant, and wholly original valediction from the 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 464 pp. Fiction (FIC029000) second king of Mississippi literature. . . . He was an American original, 978-0-8021-4550-5 a bona fide Southern hell-raiser with the voice of a drunk angel, shot full World rights: Grove Press Performance rights: of the world’s best good.” —Michael Schaub, NPR International Creative Management Agency (tel.: 212-556-5600) Barry Hannah (1942–2010) was the author of eight novels and four story Carton quantity: 28 collections. His work was published in Harper’s, Esquire, and The New Yorker, and Export: USCO Previous ISBN: 978-0-8021-1968-1 he has been honored with the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction.

48 Starting in July 2011, Grove Press will be reissuing nine of highsmith’s works

november november paperback

A shocking story collection “flush “Her best novel.” with satire, mischief, and menace” —The New Yorker (Harper’s Bazaar), with a new introduction by Wells Tower

Tales of Natural The Tremor of and Unnatural Forgery Catastrophes Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith Introduction by Introduction by Francine Prose Wells Tower

n Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, the last short- he legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered story collection published during Patricia Highsmith’s for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. I lifetime, incisive prose chronicles a world gone slightly mad. TRipley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed best The ten eerily up-to-date stories cover environmental degradation, seller in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreci- apocalyptic disaster, political chaos, and religious conservatism ated in the United States. and leave us haunted with “afterimages that will tremble—but The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Highsmith’s stay—in our minds” (The New Yorker). finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of “Whereas we read Stephen King or Ruth Rendell to relish the Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to thrills that come from carefully controlled verbal terror, High- work on a movie, a love story too sordid to be set in America. But smith is not to be taken so lightly. She conveys a firm, in Tunisia, little goes according to plan. Amid the tea shops and unshakable belief in the existence of evil . . . The genius of alleys of the souk, the sun-blasted architecture, the beaches and Tales—and all of Highsmith’s writing—is that it is at once hotels frequented by international tourists, Ingham’s morality deeply disturbing and exhilarating.” —The Boston Phoenix begins to shift in the withering heat.

Patricia Highsmith was born in Texas in 1921, raised in New “Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. York, and lived most of her adult life in Europe. The author of . . . Highsmith’s finest novel to my mind is The Tremor of twenty-two novels and seven collections of stories, she died in 1995. Forgery, and if I were asked what it is about it I would reply, ‘apprehension.’” —Graham Greene Wells Tower is the author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” in 2010, he is Francine Prose is the author of many best-selling books of also the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, fiction, includingA Changed Man and Blue Angel, a finalist for the two Pushcart Prizes, and the 2002 Plimpton (Discovery) Prize from National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times best seller The Paris Review. Reading Like a Writer.

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• The Accident by Ismail Kadare ��������������������������������������� 45 • O’Rourke, P. J., Holidays in Heck ����������������������������������� 10 • A Free Man of Color by John Guare ������������������������������� 44 • Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz ��������������������������� 50 • A Lily of the Field by John Lawton ����������������������������������� 40 • Prcic, Ismet, Shards ������������������������������������������������������� 24 • Assassins of the Turquiose Palace by Roya Hakakian ��������� 16 • Shards by Ismet Prcic ����������������������������������������������������� 24 • Baitz, Jon Robin, Other Desert Cities ����������������������������� 50 • Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by • The Battle of the Tanks by Lloyd Clark �������������������������� 12 Patricia Highsmith ������������������������������������������������������� 49 • Before the End, After the Beginning by Dagoberto Gilb ��� 20 • Tales of the New World by Sabina Murray ����������������������� 26 • Beith, Malcolm, The Last Narco ������������������������������������� 42 • Theroux, Paul, Murder in Mount Holly ������������������������� 32 • The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore ����������������������������������� 23 • Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer ��������������������������������������� 7 • Bowden, Mark, Worm ��������������������������������������������������� 8 • Trackers by Deon Meyer �������������������������������������������������� 6 • Bredesen, Philip, Fresh Medicine ������������������������������������� 43 • The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith ������������������� 49 • Bruen, Ken, Headstone ��������������������������������������������������� 28 • Tuck, Lily, I Married You for Happiness ��������������������������� 2 • Clark, Lloyd, The Battle of the Tanks ����������������������������� 12 • United Nations by Stanley Meisler ��������������������������������� 46 • The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares • What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes ��������������� 4 by Joyce Carol Oates ����������������������������������������������������� 30 • The Witch of Hebron by James Howard Kunstler ����������� 35 • Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz ������������������������������������� 46 • Worm by Mark Bowden ��������������������������������������������������� 8 • Don’t Vote—It Just Encourages the Bastards by P. J. O’Rourke 38 • Dunmore, Helen, The Betrayal ��������������������������������������� 23 • Freeman, John, ed., Granta 117 ������������������������������������� 51 • Fresh Medicine by Philip Bredesen ��������������������������������� 43 • Forna, Aminatta, The Memory of Love ����������������������������� 36 • Gilb, Dagoberto, Before the End, After the Beginning ������� 20 • Gombrowicz, Witold, Cosmos ��������������������������������������� 46 • Granta 117 edited by John Freeman ������������������������������� 51 • The Great Leader by Jim Harrison ��������������������������������� 18 • Guare, John, A Free Man of Color ����������������������������������� 44 • Hakakian, Roya, Assassins of the Turquiose Palace ������������� 16 • Hannah, Barry, Long, Last, Happy ��������������������������������� 48 • Harrison, Jim, The Great Leader ����������������������������������� 18 • Headstone by Ken Bruen ������������������������������������������������� 28 • Highsmith, Patricia, Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes ������������������������������������������������� 49 • Highsmith, Patricia, Tremor of Forgery ��������������������������� 49 • Holidays in Heck by P. J. O’Rourke ��������������������������������� 10 • The Inside Ring by Mike Lawson ����������������������������������� 47 • I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck ����������������������� 2 • Kadare, Ismail, The Accident ������������������������������������������� 45 • Kunstler, James Howard, The Witch of Hebron ��������������� 35 • The Last Narco by Malcolm Beith ����������������������������������� 42 • Lawson, Mike, The Inside Ring ��������������������������������������� 47 • Lawton, John, A Lily of the Field ������������������������������������� 40 • Long, Last, Happy by Barry Hannah ������������������������������� 48 • Marlantes, Karl, What It Is Like to Go to War ������������������ 4 • Meisler, Stanley, United Nations ������������������������������������ 46 • The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna ������������������������� 36 • Meyer, Deon, Thirteen Hours ������������������������������������������� 7 • Meyer, Deon, Trackers ...... 6 • Murder in Mount Holly by Paul Theroux ����������������������� 32 • Murray, Sabina, Tales of the New World ��������������������������� 26 • The New York Times Staff, Open Secrets ��������������������������� 00 • Oates, Joyce Carol, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares �� 30 • Open Secrets by The New York Times Staff ������������������������� 00 • O’Rourke, P. J., Don’t Vote—It Just Encourages the Bastards ��� 38 Celebrating 50 Years of Tropic of Cancer in America

“A momentous event in the history of modern writing.”—Samuel Beckett “Henry Miller blasted the bounds of conventional morality and the rules of literary convention.”—Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times

Portrait by BrassaÏ © Gilberte BrassaÏ

50 years ago, fresh on the heels of victory over obscenity charges against Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Grove Press first released Henry Miller’s modern masterpiece, Tropic of Cancer, to American audi- ences. Miller’s autobio­graphical novel, originally published in Paris in 1934, was in turn targeted by the government and banned for being obscene. After an expensive, drawn-out battle that only heightened the notoriety of this remarkable work, Grove, Miller, and freedom prevailed. Stylistically inventive and energetic, Tropic of Cancer is still as fresh and mesmerizing as it was in 1961.

One of Time’s 100 Best Novels from 1923 to 2005 One of Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the Twentieth Century

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(978-0-8021-3178-2 • $14.00 • Fiction • US) Grove/Atlantic is thrilled to announce the relaunch of The Mysterious Press with Otto Penzler in Fall 2011

HEADSTONE by Ken Bruen (October) “Ken Bruen is hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility—Bruen writes with extraordinary delicacy about a man driven to acts of violence out of wild grief and a fierce sense of guilt.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

THE CORN MAIDEN AND OTHER NIGHTMARES by Joyce Carol Oates (November) “Oates is just a fearless writer . . . with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers.”—Los Angeles Times

MURDER IN MOUNT HOLLY by Paul Theroux (December) “Theroux has long been the most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer

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